Dr. Nour Moussa was recently invited by Dr. Joshua Miller to present a guest lecture on ancient DNA for his GENETICS 400 class, at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. The lecture was on Tuesday, March 1st and entitled "Challenges in working with ancient DNA: A story from Lake Baikal, Siberia.” Nour really enjoyed her time talking about her past research, and a good time was had by all!
Dr. Nour Moussa was recently invited to present a guest lecture for the Genetics 400 course at MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada. The lecture was on April 8th and entitled "A Snapshot on the Maternal Background of Lake Baikal's Ancient Populations". A good time was had by all! Action photo by Dr. Monica Davis.
Some great BAP news to share in the new year of 2021! Congratulations to Drs. Nour M. Moussa, Hugh G. McKenzie, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga I. Goriunova and Andrzej W. Weber on the recent publication of their article in Archaeological Research in Asia! Title: Insights into Lake Baikal's ancient populations based on genetic evidence from the Early Neolithic Shamanka II and Early Bronze Age Kurma XI cemeteries Authors: Nour M. Moussa, Hugh G. McKenzie, Vladimir I. Bazaliiskii, Olga [...]
Although previous ancient DNA research has contributed to the investigation of middle Holocene culture history and population dynamics in the Cis-Baikal, most of this work has been limited to the Angara valley and southwest Baikal, with only restricted genetic analysis of skeletal materials from the Little Sea microregion. In this paper, we expand upon initial findings by analyzing new mtDNA results from the EN/EBA Kurma XI cemetery (Little Sea area) and the EN Shamanka II cemetery (southwest Baikal). [...]